Storm sunk by late goal to fall to eighth in conference

SARNIA – The Guelph Storm surrendered a goal with less than five minutes to go in the game to drop a 2-1 decision to the Sarnia Sting in Ontario Hockey League play Saturday night at Sarnia’s Progressive Auto Sales Arena.

The loss was the Storm’s 12th in 13 games and leaves them at 28-28-5-4, good for eighth in the Western Conference. They’re one point behind both the Windsor Spitfires (30-28-4-2) and Saginaw Spirit (29-27-8-0), but both Windsor and Saginaw have a game in hand.

Saturday, the Sting scored once in the first period and once in the third while the Storm scored their goal in the second.

Nate Schnarr had the goal for Guelph while Isaac Ratcliffe assisted on the play.

Hugo Leufvenius and Adam Ruzicka had a goal apiece for Sarnia and Jamieson Rees had an assist.

The Storm outshot the Sting 41-32 and neither team had a power-play goal. The Storm had four power plays and Sarnia had two.

Anthony Popovich was charged with the loss in net for the Storm while Justin Fazio picked up the win for Sarnia.

The Storm have three games slated for the final week of their regular season, two against the Kitchener Rangers (42-20-2-0) and one against the Erie Otters (22-34-7-3). They’re to host Kitchener Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Sleeman Centre and play at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Friday at 7:30 p.m. and at the Erie Insurance Arena Saturday at 7 p.m.